[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 13/13] RFC: Deprecate MAKEALL

[York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>]

On 08/05/2014 07:47 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Since buildman now includes most of the features of MAKEALL it is probably
> time to talk about deprecating MAKEALL.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 

Simon,

I know buildman has been out for a while. I just rely too much on MAKEALL
automation and am reluctant to try buildman.

Reading buildman/README, it seems buildman always builds a branch and its
upstream commit. I am hoping you can help me to understand how to use buildman
in my environment with gerrit and Jenkins. For every patch (internal
development), we use gerrit to conduct review and Jenkins to test. If you are
not familiar with either, the simplest way to understand is a script will run on
every commit. In the script I use MAKEALL to build all concerned (hundreds)
targets for _this_ commit. The dependency is maintained by gerrit. The result is
fed back to gerrit to show the author (and reviewers) if a failure happens.

If using buildman and the upstream commit is always built, a great amount of
time will be consumed with no benefit. If you see a better way to use buildman,
I can give it a try.

Regards,

York